Space infrastructure now underpins communications, navigation, intelligence, security, and economic resilience around the world.
This campaign examines how governments and commercial partners are strengthening operational resilience in an increasingly contested and strategically important domain.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 3: Sovereignty & Self-Sufficiency
Europe cannot secure its space capabilities by owning every satellite, launch vehicle, ground station, and data center. So what should sovereignty mean now?
In Episode 3 of Collateral Risk, SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Chiara Manfletti, CEO of Neuraspace, about why the civil-military boundary in space is fading; why protecting a satellite is not enough; and how modular sovereignty can strengthen Europe's freedom to act.
They discuss the full space-service chain, the roles of primes, startups, universities, and agencies, and why government procurement must create market pull for resilient commercial services.
SSPI-WISE Panel: Defense of Space: Building Resilience at Every Layer
Space resilience is not built at one layer. It depends on what happens in orbit, on the ground, across data and communications systems, between government and commercial partners, and among the people responsible for every mission.
In Defense of Space: Building Resilience at Every Layer, moderator Katina Mruk is joined by Jennifer Jeffries, Darren McKnight, and Ambericent "Amber" Cornett for a wide-ranging conversation on persistent orbital intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum, commercial-military integration, information sharing, policy, culture, and trust.
Originally presented as an SSPI-WISE All-Members Meeting, the conversation asks what it will take to move commercial integration from "backup plan" to foundational capability - and why the hardest barriers may be cultural rather than technical.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 1: Who Ultimately Bears the Risk?
Commercial satellites now support civilian life, global commerce, humanitarian work - and, in some cases, military operations. When those roles overlap, who ultimately bears the risk?
In the launch episode of Collateral Risk, SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, about the civilian consequences of disruption in space; why dual use is not one simple category; and the decisions companies and governments should settle before a crisis.
They discuss commercial obligations, government responsibility, contracts, information sharing, the Outer Space Treaty, UNOOSA, and debris prevention.
